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[00:01:00] an unusual blue bus has been spotted on the streets of Minsk. It's a mobile
[00:01:04] home. Traveler and journalist Gerbert plans to visit
[00:01:07] 193 countries with it. Belarus is second on the list, the first
[00:01:11] was the owner's historical homeland, Armenia.
[00:01:15] He has an address. Mira street building one. The product
[00:01:18] is called with Gerbert. I travel to different countries,
[00:01:22] talk about different cultures and talk about how the distinct
[00:01:25] differences are still more united than divided. I
[00:01:28] was born in Armenia. then lived in Kazakhstan for a couple of
[00:01:32] years, then lived in Russia for 10 years and lived in Germany for 12
[00:01:36] years, so you could say I'm a man of the world. The
[00:01:40] bus will continue its way, changing countries and borders, but the
[00:01:43] inscription on its side will remain unchanged: 193
[00:01:47] countries, 8 billion people, and all of them are
[00:01:50] us.
[00:04:05] In Belarus, people know well who the Banderites are, who the Forest
[00:04:08] Brothers are, but mentions of the Home Army
[00:04:12] are quite rare. Unfortunately, this is primarily due
[00:04:16] to the ambiguous attitude towards this group, and such an attitude
[00:04:19] is caused by the concealment and silencing of its true
[00:04:22] actions during the Great Patriotic War on the territory
[00:04:26] of the BSSR, because wishing not to stir up old wounds,
[00:04:30] wishing to live in peace and friendship with neighbors to the west, we for the most part
[00:04:33] adopted Poland's version that the Home Army is a Polish
[00:04:37] liberation partisan movement, that in 1944
[00:04:41] they rebelled against the fascists and organized the Warsaw Uprising
[00:04:45] for Poland's independence. But if you don't
[00:04:48] believe words, but look at documents, talk to the descendants
[00:04:52] of those who knew about the cruelty of the group firsthand,
[00:04:55] then a lot falls into place,
[00:04:58] for example, that the Home Army... these are bandits, that they largely
[00:05:02] fought against Soviet power and the Belarusian
[00:05:05] people, cooperating with the Germans, receiving from them both
[00:05:08] intelligence and weapons. But for
[00:05:11] some, this is... Of course, different. And with you, I am
[00:05:14] Ksenia Lebedeva.
[00:05:16] Hello.
[00:05:25] On August 1st, Poles widely celebrated the 82nd anniversary
[00:05:29] of the Warsaw Uprising, honoring members of the Home Army.
[00:05:33] In general, this is a holiday of Polish hypocrisy. What is the essence of the uprising
[00:05:36] itself? Its organizer was the Home
[00:05:40] Army, the military structure of the Polish government. the remaining
[00:05:54] civilians and almost complete destruction
[00:05:57] of the city. The decision to start the uprising in Warsaw was made
[00:06:01] by the Polish leadership in London and personally by the AK commander, General
[00:06:05] Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski. The political goal was
[00:06:08] twofold: on the one hand, to liberate Warsaw from German
[00:06:11] occupiers. On the other hand, to prevent the entry of the
[00:06:15] Red Army into the city and the establishment of Soviet control.
[00:06:19] The uprising was intended to demonstrate that Poland
[00:06:22] was capable of independently restoring its statehood, and the
[00:06:25] legitimate government remained the London
[00:06:28] cabinet. From a military point of view, the uprising was
[00:06:31] doomed. The insurgents, about 40-50 thousand
[00:06:35] people, were significantly worse armed than
[00:06:38] the German units. The Nazis, aware of the
[00:06:41] preparations, deployed SS units and
[00:06:44] collaborationist formations. Critics
[00:06:47] call this action political madness and
[00:06:51] needless sacrifices. But while Poland honors its
[00:06:55] heroes, we in Belarus look at them completely
[00:06:58] differently. By mid- 1944,
[00:07:01] on the territory of Western Belarus alone, there were almost
[00:07:04] 56,000 AK members. Four districts
[00:07:08] - Bialystok, Vilna, Novogrudok, Polessye,
[00:07:11] armed and... ready to fight, but against
[00:07:14] whom, with the Germans?
[00:07:17] No,
[00:07:19] soldiers of the Polish Home Army during the Great Patriotic War killed
[00:07:23] more Belarusians than Germans, meaning peaceful Belarusians. The Home Army has
[00:07:26] much more Belarusian blood on its hands than even on German hands.
[00:07:30] The Home Army hardly fought with the Germans on the territory of Belarus; they mainly
[00:07:34] fought with the Belarusian population,
[00:07:38] they didn't fight, but destroyed, burned
[00:07:41] villages alive.
[00:07:44] Here is one such terrible page: in the village of Rakovich,
[00:07:47] an Orthodox priest and his wife were brutally murdered.
[00:07:50] The wife was raped in front of her husband, her
[00:07:54] breast was cut off. Father Ioann's fingers were cut off, the ones with which he
[00:07:57] crossed himself. One of the reasons was his unwillingness
[00:08:00] to switch from Belarusian to Polish during
[00:08:03] the sermon. Besides the family, Alekhnovich killed three
[00:08:07] Belarusian language teachers. Here's what they say
[00:08:10] about this incident in the village.
[00:08:14] It turned out that on that night another
[00:08:17] resident from the neighboring village of Syamyagi, not far from
[00:08:21] Rakovich, was killed. We learned about this from his son,
[00:08:24] he came to us from Shchuchyn, now he lives in
[00:08:27] Shchuchyn, and he told us that on that night, the bandits broke into
[00:08:31] their house, and his father tried
[00:08:34] to escape through the window, but he didn't succeed, he was killed and
[00:08:38] his mother was brutally and inhumanely beaten, she was expecting
[00:08:42] a child, they didn't finish her off, they decided that she
[00:08:45] wouldn't survive, but it turned out that by God's
[00:08:49] grace she survived, gave birth to this child, Viktor, and
[00:08:52] in memory of his father, he was also named Viktor,
[00:08:55] Viktor Viktorevich Trakhimchik, well, he is now well over 80, he
[00:08:59] no longer comes to us, this was years ago, this was
[00:09:02] 23 years ago, and he was here for the last time long
[00:09:06] ago, this memorial cross was erected on the
[00:09:09] site of the old church, the old church.
[00:09:42] it was they, the Poles, who killed these priest and his wife Volha
[00:09:46] Haliakhnovich for their Orthodox faith, and
[00:09:50] the teachers for the Belarusian language, these Belarusian language teachers,
[00:09:53] all three of them, all three were killed for this. Well, they
[00:09:57] forced Father Yan
[00:09:59] Lyakhnovich to preach in Polish, but he
[00:10:03] refused, they simply tormented him inhumanely,
[00:10:06] brutally, and then killed him. I
[00:10:10] read that his wife... they could
[00:10:13] have left her alive, but they
[00:10:16] took him away, led him out of the village, and she didn't stay there waiting, but
[00:10:20] followed him, and they were both killed there. And
[00:10:24] now the most... cynical part, that makes this story not just
[00:10:27] a tragedy, but a well-thought-out crime. A quote from
[00:10:31] a document adopted at a meeting of the Home Army on May 5,
[00:10:34] 1943 in the village of Luhavichy,
[00:10:37] Ivatsevichy district.
[00:10:41] Since the Germans are hostile to communists, we must use this,
[00:10:44] calling all Belarusian national figures communists, who have always been
[00:10:48] and now are serious enemies of the Poles. Let the Germans beat them, and
[00:10:52] we will, as it were, show sympathy for innocent victims.
[00:10:55] Belarusians will never be able to understand this. These people are ignorant,
[00:10:58] especially politically. Through our people, ask the police and Germans
[00:11:02] to burn Belarusian villages under the pretext that they are helping partisans
[00:11:05] try to help the Germans detain several Soviet partisans as
[00:11:09] proof of our cooperation with the Germans, only
[00:11:12] a little, otherwise this may break our connection with
[00:11:15] the partisans.
[00:11:17] The Home Army was tasked with returning Poland to its 1939
[00:11:20] borders, therefore they expanded their activities in the territories of Western Belarus.
[00:12:03] The extermination of the population based on ethnic grounds is a clear
[00:12:06] characteristic of genocide, genocide against Belarusians,
[00:12:10] Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Jews. Unfortunately, a part of the AK
[00:12:14] units was engaged in exactly this, and these crimes cannot
[00:12:17] be justified by anything. In 2022,
[00:12:21] the FSB of Russia declassified documents confirming the facts
[00:12:25] of terrorist acts committed by the AK on the territory of Belarus in 1944.
[00:12:29] Excerpts and reports from the NKVD of the Belarusian
[00:12:32] SSR speak of almost seventy terrorist acts and other
[00:12:35] crimes. Victims included representatives
[00:12:39] of power, military personnel, leaders of enterprises, teachers,
[00:12:42] entire village councils were destroyed. And
[00:12:45] after the official disbandment of the Home Army in January
[00:12:48] 1945, many members of the organization did not
[00:12:52] lay down their arms. They went into the forests of Western
[00:12:55] Belarus and continued the terror together with the Germans.
[00:12:58] On March 12, 1945, the head
[00:13:01] of the fourth department of the USSR, Pavel
[00:13:04] Sudoplatov, reported to the People's Commissar of State Security, Merkulov,
[00:13:08] information received from the commander of a special group
[00:13:11] of the NKGB behind enemy lines, Senior Lieutenant Alexander
[00:13:15] Shikhov, who operated in the Vilna
[00:13:17] region.
[00:13:20] Bandit Vaitkevich Eduard was arrested, who, being sure that he was dealing with
[00:13:24] Shikhov as the leader of a gang, informed him of his
[00:13:28] belonging to Komar's gang, called himself "Pantsesh" and
[00:13:32] said that Komar's gang consists of sixty experienced
[00:13:35] bandits, has five machine guns and
[00:13:38] many automatic weapons. Pantsesh also reported that Komar's gang
[00:13:42] includes a group of German paratroopers, numbering six people, led
[00:13:46] by a major with a radio, through which
[00:13:49] communication with the German
[00:13:51] command is carried out. The Grodno Prosecutor's Office
[00:13:55] continues to investigate these crimes. To date,
[00:13:58] about 3,000 facts of murders of
[00:14:01] civilians in the region have been established, including
[00:14:04] 61 children among them. We often ask why today in
[00:14:08] Poland those who killed our compatriots are glorified.
[00:14:12] Why are criminals sentenced to death elevated
[00:14:15] to the rank of national heroes? Because
[00:14:18] historical memory is a weapon and Poland, unfortunately, uses
[00:14:22] this weapon against us. To eternalize.
[00:14:55] Poles, but we demand one thing: respect for our
[00:14:58] memory, for the memory of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers,
[00:15:02] who were killed not only by the Nazis, but also by those
[00:15:05] whom today in Warsaw they call heroes.
[00:15:08] It is important, perhaps, to recall that after the Great Patriotic War, in the Polish
[00:15:12] People's Republic, AK members for cooperation with the occupiers
[00:15:16] received the nickname of cursed soldiers. In modern
[00:15:20] Poland, the bandit executioners from the Home Army are honored as
[00:15:23] heroes. But this, perhaps, is different,
[00:15:27] one must understand. And with you was Yasenia Lebedeva, until
[00:15:31] we meet in the next
[00:15:32] program.
[00:16:02] The European automotive industry is rushing into the abyss with a breeze, the crisis is called one of
[00:16:06] the deepest in the industry's history. The European automotive industry is one of
[00:16:09] the largest industrial sectors on the planet. Before the crisis, 13
[00:16:13] million were employed directly and in related industries. Annual production volume
[00:16:16] is about 12 million cars. Its share in world production
[00:16:20] was 25% back in 2015. In 2026, it will be already less than
[00:16:23] 18%. The European automotive industry is in a powerful vice. On the one
[00:16:27] hand, Donald Trump is hitting exports with high import duties. On the
[00:16:31] other hand, a number of global errors in the economic policy
[00:16:34] of the European Union are affecting it. These persistent Chinese
[00:16:37] are not letting them live; their automotive industry is simply
[00:16:41] destroying legendary German brands. A Chinese
[00:16:44] electric car costs on average 30-40% cheaper
[00:16:48] than its European counterpart with comparable quality. In
[00:16:51] 2025, Chinese brands already occupied
[00:16:54] a tenth of the European market. The price of industrial
[00:16:58] electricity in Germany in 2026 is about
[00:17:01] 20 euro cents per kilowatt-hour. In China, it's 5-7
[00:17:05] euro cents, in the USA - 7-9 euro cents. In order
[00:17:08] for the automotive industry not to collapse under the weight of economic realities, European authorities are trying to find
[00:17:12] them something to do, that is, to reorient them, just as before the Second
[00:17:15] World War, suggesting they turn butter into guns.
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